Indiana Centinel, Volume 3, Number 15, Vincennes, Knox County, 17 July 1819 — Page 2

RALEIGH, June 12. JJjnks of .VorM Carolina. We observe that some misapprehension exists as to the determination of the banks of this state re-pecting specie payments. They have uot tiie smallest design to refuse prompt pay for their notes. They only mean to guard their vaults against the inroads of speculator. In doing this they believe they will receive the countenance and approbation of the community. There must be great joy in England, for the German woman, married to the duke of Cambridge, has been delivered of a baby-master for John Bull, at Hanover The duchess j of Clarence, on the following day bad a j daughter, which died just after its birth. ; The duchess of Kent has set olF from Germany for England, and the account says that "she also is " far advanced in pregnancy" as to be compelled to travel slowly ! What stuff is this royalty .' Great number of woolen and cotton weavers are said to be out of employ in England, on account of the diminished demand for articles of their manufacture, and fears are entertained for the public peace. The clerks employed in the bank of England are to amount to eleven hundred, being about 5o more than are at present occupied in all the public offices in Washington. A recent attempt has been made in NewYork, to make a fatal run upon Jacob Barkers bank, which altogether failed, and every demand was met with promptitude. DIED, In Portsmouth, Mrs. polly biazdell. She had been tapped, since Nov. 180.5, more than two hundred times, and more than eight thousand nine hundred gallons of water, equal to eleven hogsheads, drawn from her A pair of Dwarfs. Mr. Fope and his wife now in London, arc Prussians, and of remarkable small stature. He is about 36 years of age, and not more than eighteen inches in height. His wife overtops him by about six inches. Thev dwell together in a portable house, adapted their size. A whimsical regulation is mentioned in a Paris paper to have been prescribed by the Austrian Government, with regard to its couriers. When they have a despatch to carry, having only one seal, they are only to travel at a walking pace when it has two seals they are enjoined to go at a trot ; and when it has three seals, they are ordered to proceed at full gallop. The British duke of Devonshire has given 100,000 dollars fur the marble statue of Bonaparte's mother. The old lady herself must be gratified, if living, by this compliment. COXSUMPTIOX I We published some time ao a very simple receipt for consumption, which was a fumigation over a pan containing a half pound of rosin and a pound of yellow wax. A subscriber informs us that I is friend in Philadelphia ha3 tried it with great success when in a very low state, and that he now expectorates with ease. The receipt is worthy particular attention. JWAdvo. THE LION AND LIONESS. Birth Extraordinary. On Friday nijbt last, the Lioness, which has been exhibited in this town for two weeks past, brought forth three Whelps. Ya$hville jiap. Mr. Silas Mason, of Pcdham, has invented a new Carding Machine, expressly calculated for the manufacture of wool hats. It produces the hat in its conical forni in one operation. Boston paper. The Protestant Episcopal Clergy in the United States are in number 31, eight of which are bishops. Surgical Operation. On the 6th of May last, the operation of Paracentesis of the Thorax was performed on a vouns: roan aged about 17. at Seneca Falls, New York. The surgeon commenced in the usual place, between the Gtli and 7th ribs, on the left side cf the chst, and completed the operation exclusively with the knife. Several medical men were present, and witnessed the discharge of three measured quarts of purulent matter, weighing, with the bowl, seven and a half pounds, and drawn from betwixt the pleura and left lobe of the lungs. In the city of New York are two children cf very diminutive size. One is a girl CO years old, of handsome and perfect shape, pleasing countenance, great vivacity and good sene; the other is a boy of sixteen, of the same height and appearance. They are not larger than common children of 5 years of age. The girl has a fine car for music, and sings remarkably well. Potatoes grow abuiulantly'in South America, on the north side ot the Bio de la Plata, in wild situations, unnoticed bv the inhabitant, who never cultivate this valuable vegetable. It alo found wild among the rocks on Monte Video, and in the vicinities oT Maldcnado, on the sand hills on the river shore, as w11 a in low moist situations, Hear streams of water. Mammoth Boy. There is now living in the District of Maine a bor les. than two years old, 5 feet high, 25 inches round the calf of his leg, 15 round his leg an inch above the knee, 3 feet G inches round the waist. His weight is 107 pounds. His appetite is keen, and health good. About the l-lth May a luttrau was upet in attempting: to cros the ferry between Montreal and La Turtle, and about fifty

drunken people drowned. Two rr.cn and one woman only were saved. An English paper of the 17th of April states that gloomy accounts were received by the last mail from the manufacruring districts. " At Leicester, for the last ten days 5000 persons are represented as being out of einplov." The Russian government is fitting out two expeditions for scientific researches in remote seas. Eacli is to consist of two ships ; one of them is designed to make discoveiies towards the North Pole. Jerome Bonaparte resides in Vienna. rIhe London newspapers advertises no lss than fifteen ships to take out paen:rer9 to "America, whose tonnage amounts (o b-ZOQ tons; and the Belfast papers nearly as many more. By the returns of the latter port,1 it appears that about 1 1,000 persons emigrated to America from thence lat seasim. amonirst whom were upwards of seven hundred families. A lire occurred on the 2d of April, at Hitskimmill, in Hungary, which destoved the barracks, two churches, and G00 dwelling houses. The emperor and empress of Austria arrived in Home on the 2d of April ; ti e Bonaparte family were not permitted to sec them ! The plague in Barbary still raged in its utmost fury on the 17th March. The deaths were moie numerous than they had been during the last fatal year. The people were neglecting all their usual avocations, and were shutting themselves up in their huts. Superstition. After the execution of two persons at Maidstone, a number of persons came under the gallows to be cured of wens, by having them rubbed with the dead hands of the malefactors. Gen. Stark. At the battle of Bennington, when the armies were about to commence the engagement, the Hessian colonel tinum made a speech to his soldiers, ed'hoiting I them to contend valiantly with the enemy, who, in their white frocks, were in view before them, and representing tliem as the owners of the soil, who would fight bard to defend it. General Stark addressed his men in the following laconic style, which indicates the spirit and feelings of this hardy American My boys, do you see the lied Coats yonder ! Well, we must beat them in ffteen minutes or Molly Stark is a widow! By an arrival at Philadelphia, fiom Lisbon, on the irth May, Stephen Girurd, the rich banker, received lc0,t.C0 dollars in specie, j Hull, England Jpril J. The celebrated ! ship Isabella, which boie the flag of captain . Boss to the polar regions, has sailed lor A- : mcrica with tw o hundred English passengers, 1 men, women and children. The emigiation ! from this port is most prodigious, and is continually increasing. T he y are o I persons of all descriptions, but chieliv persons who , possess a little property, 'i lie loss of so many valuable subjects, at this seasou ul national difficulty , cannot be easily remedied. Hydrophobia. " One ol the Philadelphia watchmen lately died of this dreadful malady. The case "is detailed by two eminent physicians, who state We know of no cure for hydrophobia: we know ot no recoveries : but black, hopeless despair staring eery one in the face, who becomes the unhappy subject of it."' fruigvJar Fact. Hundreds of petitions are aciu'.lv in circulation for signatures in Murylarid, praying the governor to convene the legislature in order that their wisdom may devise some mode to relieve the people of their BE UTS !! This scheme originated in Baltimore, and is extremely popular. AMEBICA.Y PlIAUMALOPLEIA. At a meeting of the Convention at Philadelphia on the 3d of June, delegates were appointed to attend the general convention at the city of Washington, and the follow ing resolutions adopted : Besolved, to accept the Pharmacopoeia as formed by this convention, and that it be presented to the General Convention to be held at Washington on the 1st day of January, 1820. Besolved, That all practitioners in the middle states be respectfully requested to communicate to the above named delegates an account of such indigenous articles and American formula as they may deem worthy a place in the National Pharmacopoeia. The Convention adjourned, after having accomplished the great objects of their meeting in a manner perfectly satisfactory to every gentleman present. ROYAL NECTAR, Or, the Prince llegenVs Punch. By the politeness of a gentleman who figures high in the upper circles of fashion, says a London paper we are enabled to present our readers with the following volliable recipe for making or mixing this truly nectarious beverage. Take four bottles of champaign, 1 bottle of hock, 1 bottle of curracoa, one quart of brandy, I quart of rum, 2 bottles cf madeira, and two bottles of seltzer water, with Albs. ot bloom' raisins, and quant. sufV. of Seville orange, lemons, and white sugar candy. Instead of water bring this mixture to a proper tate and continence with the finest green tea. The whole to be rightly iced. N. B. Haifa docn tumblers of this le gitimate liquor, w ill u,t a cr.tlcr.un in high spirits, and make him ripe fur any sort of fun. As a proof of its suptrivr merits, the

ladies are said Id bs rcmaikably fond of it. At a late party of only one hundred select friends, at the west end of the tow n, more than a score of the fair sex left the rooms with more than a drop in their eye. M. DEyuriLLE, The French minister in this country, is about to return home. The citizens of Wa.l inton gave to him and his lady a ?pl?ndd ball lately. The rand Trench national air of HKERI QCATKK was struck up by the band on his entering the ball room, anil the first dance was to the tune of The white cockade arid peacock's feather,-9 which owed its origin to the alliance between Fiance and America in the Rewdution. lh Dighton, Mass there is a larze rock, on which were discovered hierogly phical characters. These were some time since sent to different universities to be decypheied; but nothing has Iven heard from them till lately, when the pi evident of Alleghany College received a letter from a gentleman in France, informing him, that it appeared that these characters wen inscribed there by an Asiatic in the year of the World lOO ' irtlliam H. Curran, sen of the Orator, has la! civ publicised a lite of his father. i A London paper says that the aggregate I population of the known habitable globe is ' estimated at eight hundred and sLrty four millions, three handl ed thousand souls. ECOA'OJir.' The editor of the American Farmer, printed at Baltimore, ays that a gentleman mentioned a fact to him the other day, to convey an idea of the habits and condition of a certain neighborhood, j He said he met on the road.going to a neigh- ! boriug village, an old fa2;ioned, imported 1 coach, drawn by two half started horses,! driven by a naked negro slave, conveying a live hog, to buv a jug of rum ! Cashmere Shawls, Fixe hundred and seventy eight of the animals producing the Cashmere Wool, or Gout of the Thibet, ! have safely reached thepit of Marseilles in France. The circumstance was announced at Paiis on the Jth of April, by a telegrabhic despatch. The enterprise for procuring this breed has been attended with great difficulty, but is at length crowned with success. " !t is calculated that these a- j nimals will thrive in France as well as in , their native land. They bear some 1 esemblance to the common gout, but are without the smell. Ancient proofs of nobility in France. In ; a plea to prove the nubility of Pemtte Bu- j m:u, married to Jean le Gras, in 144G, it was urged that on her wedding day, she was carried to church in a wheelbarrow, with a faggot of thorns and juniper, as anciently used to be done to gentlemen and gentlemen and gentlewomen: that ceremony neei being practised for those who were not ncble and well born ! HAIID TIMES. Before banks w ere know n in New England, or before paper money of any kind was in fashion, there was a great cry in Connecticut of hard times, no money to be had let's petition the governor and assembly to make paper money. One of the greatest advocates for this scheme called on the governor.vhen the following dialogue ensued. j Governor. Well, friend, what is your j business with me ? i Jonathan. "Why, please your honor's ex-! cellency, the times are hard, and money 1 very scarce, ami some on us talk of petitioning to have paper money made, so that every body may have enough on'f. Governor. But, friend, there is considerable money in the province now: gold,sil- , ver and copper, which, you know, is of more I value than any paper whatever. Among others, I have a small sum on hand, and if you are in want, and have any thing to sell, I will be a purchaser, at a fair price, and relieve you from your embarrassment. Jonathan. O dear, your honor, Pve nothing to sell, and scarce any thing to keep. Governor. Well, you look strong and healthy, and I presume are willing to work for a living. I will give you employment '. and pay you in specie. Jonathan. I do work sometimes, but I reallv can't sav I like it. Governor. Very well. Then supposing government should make ever so much money, and have neither property nor labor to give in exchange for it, you would, have no way of procuring it, but by way of borrowing or stealing. ! Jonathan. By George, Mr. Governor, now I come to think on't, I guess you're more'n half right. BALTIMORE. The speculations in the stock of the United States bank have bfen prominent caue of the distress which is now experienced in Baltimore. In the division of that stock throughout the several states in the Union, each commercial citv should hare had a portion correspondent with its extent, capital, and general resources, and this portion should have been so permanently fi.red, that no ingenuity, no perversion of the original de.-ign no forced construction of the law should have given one share to a city to which it was not entitled et, such was the management adopted on that occasion, that Baltimore owned eiyht millions of stock, and New York, with itn times the capital, one million ar.J a

half; and this unfair division gir? to Baltimore a very important control "ver that institution, which was supported by fictitioM means : the stock was run up to an amount far e.rceeding any thing like its reasonable value the bubble burst, and the promised harvest vanished. fV.J". paper. At Charleston, South Carolina, there is a general stjgnation of business : confidence: is greatly impaiicd, anil the prospect is very gloomy, Jlti'.incholy. A New Haven paper of .Tunc J, says " We learn from Meride'i that on Wednesday morning last. Miss Abzgr.il 'Vn'hSj aged ID, put an end to her ei-f-ence. S-i; had in the winter p.tt, been attacked with a fever, which left her weak in body, and in a melancholy state of mind. Some day? she seldom spoke to- any body, unless asked a question. On the fatal morning she arose and lrecd heravlf as usual, and was first discovered bv her sister coming out of her bed room, with one liaiid hold, ing a handkerchief to her ch:), when she suddenly reeled and fell c:i the floor, and instantly died. On examination the distressed family found she had cut her throat in a most shocking manner vrAh a rizor. She was the daughter of a respectable farmer. A young lawyer in the county of Hampshire, who was almost discouraged nf getting a living by his profession, entered into the tanning business giving a? a reason that he had beja skinning i good while to very little purp-jse, and now he racaut to try taning The bank of England has a capifal of l-J.C03,50O "pounds sterling?, or 64.96,G6G dollar. The building covers an extent of several acres, and employs 1 1C0 clerk?, aauout 50 more than are are at present occupied by our government in the public offices at Wa!iiiaton. The population of London in 1318, was I,Q3VJ'J0 people, and by estimate 21,030 strar.geis aie constantly in that metropolis, mr.kiug the whole number millions of people. -:-. THE VELOCIPEDE. A New York paper says One of these new -invented animals made its appearance in our fctrrets this forenoon, with the constructor himself, who, it ia said, has made some improvements o: the criminal invention, and impoited himself by th last arrival from London, in order to supply the market. Hoists, it is said, in England, arc fallen in price -10 per cent, in consequence of the sudden appearace of these atrange animals. Great speculations, a3 usual in new articles, are going on. The number of Sheep in the state of New York are estimated at a million and a half : the number of neat cattle at a million, and the number of horse at half a million. The report of Gen. McGregors being trapppd at Potto Hello, and losing all his men but two aids, who swam with hira to the squadron, is discredited in the Southern pa pers. NEW YORK, June 15. Accounts arc received at Montreal that eight regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and a proportional addition to the marine and seamen on the Lakes, are on their way from Great Britain to Canada. Various conjectures are entertained as to the object of this movement. Most people think it proceeds from the high toned replies of the American government in the explanation demanded by Great Britain on the Arbuthnct and Ambrister business. The shin John Adams, ship Ontario, and brig Enterprise, are ordered to be immediate ly prepared for sea. This squadron is to b commanded by the gallant commodore Perry, and will take the late cruising ground cf the Ontario, on the coast of S. America. LITTER. OF LIONS. The Nashville Whig says There are at this time exhibiting in the yard of the Nashville Inn, in this city, a Lioness and her litter of Whelps, three in number. The whelps were littered where they are now exhibited. In a conversation with the keeper of these Animals now e.rhibited, vv learn that the time of gestation, in the case before us, w as four months exactly the issue three in number. The Lioness, at first, was terriblv ferocious, in the care of her young; but the Whelps can now be taken from the cage, and handed about among the spectators, and returned to it by the keeper, without 'writing much emotion in the mother, who is yet much attached to them. While handling her young, people are watched with jealous vigilance by the Lioness, and much dislike to aome is expressed , by her countenance. True Pitv. A Beggar, crippled, starved anJ bliad, Rehearsed his doleful story To many people standing round, W ho all looked vastly sorry. Some pitied much, some very much, Some vry much indeed ! But not one cent did they bestowTo help the man of need. At length a Frenchman forw aid stepped With pity and some choler : How much you pitv this poor min .? "IvitjU: TWO D'JLLAUr'